Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Source: Willy Kost, in The Nice and the Good, ch. 22, 1968.
-- Iris Murdoch, (Jul 15 1919-1999), Irish author; She wrote 26 thought-provoking novels, e.g., Black Prince, 1973 and The Good Apprentice, 1985, and Jackson's Dilemma, 1995.